Dedication signed: Pietro di Fabbrizio Accolti.

Engraved arms on t.p. of Cardinal Carlo de' Medici, to whom the work is dedicated. Numerous woodcut in-text diagrams, a few full page. Printer's device at register, last leaf. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.

Signatures: pip4s(pi2+1, pi3+1) Ap2s B-Gp4s Hp2s I-Vp4s Xp2s.

Binding, c. 1: 19th-century marbled paper; 2 spine labels with author & title, place & date in gilt. Copy 2: 19th-century vellum, author & title on spine label in gilt. Copy 3: vellum; author & title written on spine, title on bottom edge of text block. Copy 4: modern vellum, preserving earlier side panels, spine and pastedowns.

Luigi Fortunato Pieri's label on front pastedown of c. 1. Labels of Ludovico Passarini and Theodore Besterman on front pastedown of c. 2. Red label with embossed letters OURI on front pastedown of c. 4, along with Ulrich Middeldorf's printed label. On t.p. of c. 4 are signatures of L.E. Lefebre, Philipon, and Cartier; extensive annotations on p. 19; outer margin of a number of leaves cut away just short of the text.